Burnside's Lemma - Proof

Proof

The proof uses the orbit-stabilizer theorem and the fact that X is the disjoint union of the orbits:

\begin{align} \sum_{g \in G}|X^g| &= |\{(g,x)\in G\times X \mid g\cdot x = x\}| = \sum_{x \in X} |G_x| = \sum_{x \in X} \frac{|G|}{|Gx|} \\ &= |G| \sum_{x \in X}\frac{1}{|Gx|} = |G|\sum_{A\in X/G}\sum_{x\in A} \frac{1}{|A|} = |G| \sum_{A\in X/G} 1 \\ &= |G| \cdot |X/G|. \end{align}

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